Eric Muhsfeldt

Who was Eric Muhsfeldt?

SS-Oberscharführer Eric Muhsfeldt, also Eric Mußfeldt or Mussfeld was a Nazi German war criminal, non-commissioned SS-officer in two extermination camps in occupied Poland including SS-Sonderkommando at Auschwitz as well as at the Majdanek concentration camp during World War II. He was arrested, tried by the Supreme National Tribunal at the Auschwitz Trial of 1947 in Kraków, and sentenced to death for crimes against humanity. He was executed by hanging on 28 January 1948.

Muhsfeldt was born on 18 February 1913. At the time of his service in the SS Totenkopfverbande he was reportedly married with one son. The fate of his wife is unknown. According to Miklós Nyiszli, his wife was killed in an air raid and his son sent to the Russian front.